see i didn't in 30 minutes. "cbs evening news" is next. captioning sponsored by cbs >> new treatment for the president, the third during his hospitalization, and a surprise for supporters outside walter reed, a drive-by greeting. also new details on president trump's breathing problems. two intervention, still talk of a transfer and a return to the white house. >> the fact of the matter is he is doing really well. >> questions persist about the time line, treatment and some evasion. >> you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something t wasn't necessarily true. >> the president releases a video designed to reassure the nation. >> i will be back, i think i will be back soon. >> also election countdown, 30 days to go, a presidentialil thc variable. how st changing campaigning. poll workers, will we have enough. >> this will be the year that we recruited that whole new

generation of poll workers. >> california takes a new wildfire record with 4 million acres up in flames so far this kreer and later. >> hello david attenborough. >> a royal treat as we hear from william and kate's curious kids. >> what animal do you like. >> this is the cbs weekend news. >> good evening, i'm major garrett in washington. president trump less than a month from a re-election verdict on his presidency and this pandemic made a surprise visit in his motorcade to supporters outside walter reed national medical center where he will remain hospitalized for a third night with covid-19.s dotor saie discharged as early as tomorrow. there are unanswered questions about the condition of president trump's lungs, did he exhibit any signs of pneumonia or other

virus-related illness. we did learn more about the president's condition on friday, it was not good. he ran a fever. his doctors won't say how high, and required two interventions of supplemental oxygen. today the president was reported to be without a fever, breathing without difficulty, we begin with chip reid outside walter reed in bethesda, maryland. >> i'm about to make a little surprise visit. >> after tweeting this video from his suite at walter reed hospital late today the president made a surprise drive-by waving to supporters outside. the president's doctors say he is extremely eager to get back to the white house. and that could happen, they say, as early as monday. but they also are describing some symptoms that are deeply sorr i feh better now.e awalter reed military med keal-- medical center president trump posted this video on twitter saturday night. >> so i just want to tell you that i am starting to feel good.

>> at a press conference sunday the doctors said the president wanted to return to the white house soon and they said he might get his wish. >> he continues to look and feal as well as he does today, our hope is that he with can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow. >> but at the same time they described symptoms that have at times been disturbing. >> over the course of his illness the president has experienced two episodes of transyent drop in his oxygen sat raise. >> for a covid patient a drop in oxygen levels can be a dangerous warning sign, that in the president's case required treatment with a steroid. is he also taking two experimental drug therapies. >> the president's physician dr. sean conley tried to explain why he had suggested on saturday that the president had not received supplemental oxygen when in fact he had. >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, his course of illness has had. it came off that we were trying to hide something. >> it is still not known how the

idt wainected but last weekend rose garden ceremony for his supreme court pick. >> judge amy conee barrett. >> may have been a superspreader event. this photo highlights the attendees packed together and without masks who have tested positive since then including the first lady, former white house counselor kellyanne conway and former new jersey governor chris christie who is now in a hospital. >> the president's journey out here to thank his supporters' dual response from democratic congressman ted lou in california. on twitter he said this reckless action puts secret service and other personnel at risk for contracting covid-19 for no good reason. >> major? >> garrett: chip reid, thank you. we have been told the next several hours could be critical for the president, joining me cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook. doctor, three interventions with medicine and two efforts to stabilize the president's breathing. what does that tell us?

>> well, you know major, we need some more information. for example we need to know what is the chest ct show, does he have knew fonia and what do the blood tests show, is there an increase in inflammatory markers that he is perhaps later in the disease, that he is in the inflammatory stage. the reason why that is important is that the first two medicine he was given the remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies, it makes sense, the idea of them is to de crease the viral load. and in that first part of the disease, that makes a lot of sense even though these medicine are experimental, they haven't been proven to be safe and effective, still that kind of makes sense and that was the decision his team made. the dexamethasone say little bit different because in the big new england journal article that was in july, it was shown to be effective in de creasing mortality significantly in people who needed a breathing tube. and to a lesser extent to people on supplemental oxygen. it was not felt to be helpful and not found to be helpful in

pople who did not need any oxygen. and that is what we are told where the president is, that he is off any oxygen and yet oxygen levels are okay. we need to know what was the logic behind this and i'm looking from the outside in, i don't know the whole story so it is hard to assess exactly what is going on. >> garrett: dexamethasone is a steroid, does anything come with it in terms of side effects, doctor. >> there are side effects to steroids. and usually the more serious ones are long-term, but short term one of the things that i wonder about is you know, it can de crease fever, so if you are saying he has no fever and you are relying on that to say how he is doing, that could be hiding a fever that he normally would have. >> garrett: does all of this add up to you, dr. jon lapook, for a safe transfer of the >> you know, normally you would not discharge somebody from a hospital to their home. of course his home is not a normal home and i'm told from my sources that the white house is very well equipped, almost like

an icu in needed. so he will be getting very closely monitored and you just want to make sure if he does suddenly take a turn for the worse, that they are totally prepared to do what needs to be done. >> garrett: dr. jon lapook, we thank you. a new cbs news battleground tracker poll out today finds a dead heat in ohio between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden. the president won ohio by eight points in 2016. in pennsylvania which mr. trump won by one half of 1 percent, our poll shows biden ahead by 7 points. even with the president off the road his campaign is moving forward with events in key balt el ground states and-- battle imrownd states on wednesday vice president pence and senator harris will meet at the university of utah for their one and only debate. cbs's ed o'keefe joins me now. ed, what is the state of the campaign with this new pandemic variable? >> the only real thing that has jl is

approximating negative advertising off of television and the internet, doesn't mean he is stopping his advertising entirely, that is not at all the case. but you won't see explicit attack ads against the president, mostly attacking his leadership during the pandemic itself. biden is continuing with plans to go to south florida on monday. there were campaign events over the weekend. and he and his running mate will campaign together in arizona on thursday. not much has changed for the trump campaign either. the fundraising emails are still going out, it is just they are coming from his children instead of from the president instead. and they have copied and pasted and sented those video messages that the president has release released to the world into campaign fundraising he emailsk still asking for cash. >> garrett: fair to say, ed, this vice presidential debate to come will take on greater significants? >> boy, this has been the undercard and sort of the forgotten debate in the past. one could argue this is now the most important one of the entire series of debates this fall. the 71-- 61 year old vice president pence and 55 year old

kamala harris, far less known to americans across the country, and obviously all that has gone on in the recent days is a reminder that at any time a vice president could potentially have to step in for the president. so both of them now under perhaps a clearer microscope and there should be more attention paid to this event. and as we mentioned, the vice president will then go to battleground arizona the same day that harris goes, alongside biden, st their first joint campaign appearance together. since she was nominated as a vice presidential running mate back in august. major? >> ed o'keefe, thank you so very much. this programming note, you can watch the vice presidential debate and we certainly hope you will right here. cbs news coverage begins wednesday at 6 p.m >> where does word that president trump contracted the virus not only prompted concern among many americans but also around the world. cbs news senior foreign correspondent elizabeth palmer is in london. >> i'm sure that president trump

is going to be fine, he's got the best possible care. >> upbeat words from a man who has been there. prime minister bore is johnston. >> i shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and i continue to shake hands. >> famously casual at the start of the pandemic. johnson caught coindividual back in march and almost died. his popularity soared when he got out of the hospital, but it has since slumped as britan widely crittized its government's handling of the pandemic. another leader who caught the virus was brazil's jair bolsonaro. he scorned masks, and called people self-isolating cowards. bolsonaro got covid in july. but a mild case which had him back at work in a couple of weeks with his approval rating up. though that may have had more to do with food subsidies for the poor. >> first johnson, then bolsonaro and now donald trump. european leaders have sent their best wishes for the president's

speedy recovery but almost immediately doubled down on their own covid precautions. at a summit in brussels, germany's angela merkel diplomatically but firmly warded off giuseppe conte. allies they might be, but in the time of covid, this was getting too close. >> elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> the coronavirus crisis in the u.s. is not slowing down. it is picking up. in a reversal new york city now says schools and businesses in hard hit neighborhoods will be closed. new infections are rising in at least 31 states. mississippi wisconsin among the worse, there is also trouble on the gridiron. tom hanson has theest. >> sidly the nfl is on the brink of a covid crisis. the day the new orleans saintsrd off normally but positive tests from both the kansas city chiefs

and patriots caused a delay of game from sunday to monday. not just on the ground. covid's impact is everywhere. >> it was october 1s and unfortunately this was my last. >> airlines including american and united have started laying off more than 30,000 employees after federal assistance ran out. it's tough at the movies too. today regal said it is considering closing all its u.s. theaters, more than 500 in all. >> news about this big budget movie may have been the last saw straw. the new james bond film delayed again fll 2021. small theaters are struggling to survive too, harvey goldberg owns this theater in new jersey. >> has having to close ever crossed your mind. >>f course, yes. e locals, the ter ton open. >> now these were hard times for movie theaters before the pandemic. this one is trying to pay its bills by hosting private events

but the owner tells me that is still only a small fraction of the money he was making before covid. major? >> garrett: tom hanson, thank you so much. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, scorched earth. california sets a new record for the most acres burned in a single year. and later, the grand ole opry at 95. and a live audience again.

>> garrett: california is hitting a fathersome milestone with roughly two months left in the fire season, raging wild fires have scorched a record number of acres and killed at least 31 people. lilia luciano is in malibu. >> new evacuations order in california's wine country tonight as the glass fire rages on, just one of the 23 maker wild d-- major wildfires burning throughout the state. fire crews beefing up their ranks overnight, now more than 2700 personnel are fighting the

flames. and taking advantage of reduced winds to launch a steady aerial assault. the wildfire has already burned almost 64,000 acres and is just 17 percent contain-- contained. >> there is still quite a bit of heat across all parts of the fire. >> the glass fire has destroyed more than 800 structures, nearly 300 are homes, and damaged or destroyed at least 17 wineries. a hundred miles north of sacramento the august complex fire is the largest in california's history, is approaching one million acres. and another sobering stat, the state just hit 4 million acres burned, doubling the worst year on record with no end in sight. >> even though there is still like i said uncertainties and it looks up trebut wll have our lif th. >> here in malibu recovery is still under way from 2018's woolsey fire, just 11 of the nearly 500 homes that were destroyed have been fully rebuilt and major, this is only

the beginning of the fall fhre season, with a dangerous santa ana winds just now getting started. >> garrett: a long rebuild there and throughout california. lilia, thank you. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, help wanted. recruiting a new generation of poll workers in a pandemic.

>> garrett: with 30 days until the election and in this difficult covid-19 era there is an energy energetic, some mighty frantic to replace poll workers to replace older ones that have stepped back over health concerns. we visited north carolina to see what is needed. >> the catawba county library in newton, north carolina has been poll worker cheryl's election day home for more than he a

decade. >> you will not be doing that this way year. >> no. >> her age and underlying health issues make her vulnerable to coronavirus. >> i decided my doctor would have a voice in it. when i raised the question in with him his face immediately said no. >> how sad does this make you. >> i shed many a tear, it is the people. i miss the people. >> across the country election administrators are racialing to recruit enough people to staff voting precincts in a pandemic. according to a 2018 study more than half of poll workers are 61 or older putting many in an age group susceptible to the virus. >> the bare minimum that we need is 37,000 just to open the polls on election day. >> frank larose is ohio's secretary of state. >> we wanted to have that 50% ere esinth reserve force in virus or folks tostto show up os 55,000. >> that has meant creative

recruiting tactics lick allowing 17 year old high school seniors to serve as poll workers encouraging businesses to give employees election day off and incentivizing charitable organizations to pitch in. >> we got an opportunity. >> there have been no shortage of national appeals. >> we got to keep showing up at the polls. >> not just to cast our own vote, but to make sure that others can too. >> and former president obama joined the cause. >> adding his voice to a poll worker registration drive led by nba royalty. >> democracy doesn't work, it is just a few people doing it. >> one of the silver linings to this whole pandemic experience as relates to election administration, is this will be the year that we recruited that whole new generation of poll workers. >> among that new generation is abby loveland, a first time poll workers in durham, north carolina. >> if we can't stop the polls t is too easy of an excuse to close them so i don't want to give any excuse for voter suppression. >> lns this year, love whrand is taking

training classes online and she will serve at this precinct on duke's campus during early voting and at this elementary school on election day. >> i am doing it because we need to. and also because i can. i am incredibly lucky, incredibly privileged that which do this and i think it's a time where we figure out whatever our capacity is, and do whatever we can. >> experts tell us up to 300,000 new poll workers will be needed this election cycle, that is based on the assumption that 40% of previous poll workers simply won't be there. there are signs that recruitment is on pace. >> next on the cbs weekend news, britain's young royals asking tough questions.

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broadcast live, but last night was the first time in months that a live audience was on hand. 500 socially distanced fans. among the performers vince gill, lorrie morgan and teri clark. to another palace now, london's kensington palace where the voices of three young royals, the children of william and kate have been recorded speaking for the first time. george who is 7, charlotte 5 and louie now two quizzed naturalist sir david attenborough about his passion. >> what animals do you think will become extinct next? >> well, there won't be any. >> i like-- do you like them too. >> i love spiders, i'm so glad you like them. >> what animal do you like. >> i think i like monkeys best. >> garrett: attenborough also revealed his other favorite animal, puppies. we will be back in a moment with an update on the president's condition.

>> garrett: recapping tonight's top story, president trump's surprise supporters outside walter reed national military medical center where he is undergoing aggressive treatment for coronavirus. president trump was in a motorcade and seen wearing a cloth mask. even so, some doctors and lawmakers questioned the wisdom and safety of this maneuver. meanwhile the president's doctor said he is continuing to improve, has been feverfree since friday night and could be released back to the white house as early as tomorrow. the president is governing from a special presidential suite at walter reed, and is on a five-day course of remdesivir. his doctors said he is not showing any side effects. and that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. "60 minutes" is coming up. i'm major garrett in washington. good night.

and now at 6:00 just as one entire city gets the okay to go home, others in the glass fire zone are forced out. the new evacuation order and why clearer skies may actually be making things worse. the city of oakland has a new plan to control its homeless encampments, but we want to know how in the world do they plan to enforce it? and the new push to reopen the investigation into one of the bay area's most notorious police shootings. good evening i'm brian hackney. >> i'm juliette goodrich. we begin on the fire watch with a new evacuation order north of calistoga. it is the area bordered by highway 29 to the west, livermore road to the north and highway 29 is also shut down from deer park road to the lake county line. but down the road in the city

of calistoga, a much more positive development. three hours ago the evacuation order that it turned it into a ghost town was downgraded to a warning. now that means people could go home at their own risk, but in other parts of the fire zone hundreds would not have homes to go back to. cal-fire says a damaged team has covered about 50% of the burn areas so far, and they confirmed 172 homes in napa county and 120 in sonoma county are gone along with the total of 272 commercial buildings. however, the fire has grown by just 1,500 acres in the past 24 hours. and in the past 24 hours fire crews have nearly doubled containment to 17%. >> the clearing skies help firefighters ramp up their aerial attack on the flames, but it may be a case of good news, bad news. firefighters tell us the thick layer of smoke actually helped slow the fire during the past week by shaving the area, so